- Oracle InstantClient SDK needs an Oracle account to download and is closed source, and is not available as a package for anything except rpm-based distros
- getting it to run with PHP is a major PITA, once again due to the above-mentioned issues
- Holy f..ing cow, why does it translate everything down to ASCII by default instead of returning raw bytes?
- It's expensive as f..k
- Try to run a query using InstantClient with a ; at the end, it will barf
- DID I MENTION IT CANNOT DO A SIMPLE LIMIT AFTER AN ORDER BY?! (at least not until 12.1, which was released in 2013; due to various issues, one including the pricing, I have seen multiple orgs running way older versions. But come on, over 30 years with only ROWNUM?!)
- Oracle InstantClient SDK needs an Oracle account to download and is closed source, and is not available as a package for anything except rpm-based distros
- getting it to run with PHP is a major PITA, once again due to the above-mentioned issues
- Holy f..ing cow, why does it translate everything down to ASCII by default instead of returning raw bytes?
- It's expensive as f..k
- Try to run a query using InstantClient with a ; at the end, it will barf
- DID I MENTION IT CANNOT DO A SIMPLE LIMIT AFTER AN ORDER BY?! (at least not until 12.1, which was released in 2013; due to various issues, one including the pricing, I have seen multiple orgs running way older versions. But come on, over 30 years with only ROWNUM?!)